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N5200 Module (before 1.00.06): BUSYBOX
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Facts
Name: BUSYBOX (replace buggy BusyBox with an actual version)
Maintainer(s): Andreas Vogel (omega)
Target: N5200
Latest version: 1.0
Depends on module(s): AUTOSTART
Description
Module version 0.1
The BusyBox is a swiss-army knife for Linux systems on embedded computers. BusyBox can be customized to provide a subset of over two hundred utilities, it can provide most of the utilities specified in the Single Unix Specification plus many other utilities a user would expect to see on a Linux system. For more information check out the BusyBox Wiki.
The busybox executable installed on the N5200 (actually 1.1.0) is buggy due to the commands chown, chgrp and chmod. If they are called with the -R (recusrive) options, they doen't ignore symbolic links when traversing the directory tree. This is not the standard behaviour of these commands and can lead into infinite loops.
For a more detailed description of that bug check the BusyBox 1.1.0 Bug Description.
A new busybox executable (version 1.3.1) will be installed and the chown, chgrp and chmod commands will use the new busybox.
This patch depends on the module AUTOSTART and cannot be installed if that module has not been installed previously.
The package installation should only take a few seconds and can be run several times without any problems as it does not care if it has been run previously. For all files which are modified there will be an initial backup of that file with the extension .ORIG.
Module version 1.0
To be documented...
News
- <2007-01-06>: initial version
- <2007-01-09>: complies with the new module design
Versions
- Version 0.1
- Release date: 2007-01-06
- Works on firmware: 1.00.04, 1.00.05
- Does not work on firmware:
- Download: Thecus_N5200_busybox_0.1.zip
- Major changes: initial version
- Version 1.0
- Release date: 2007-01-09
- Works on firmware: 1.00.04, 1.00.05
- Does not work on firmware:
- Download: Thecus_N5200_busybox_1.0.zip
- Major changes: complies with the new module design, E-Mail notification for install results